As the saying goes, one person's trash is another's treasure. For Junkmasters Sue Whitney and Ki Nassauer, discovering these diamonds in the rough is a way of life. In Junk Beautiful, they meet their biggest challenge head-on, revamping every room in your house, from the kitchen to the living room to the basement to bathroom and more.

Chapter by chapter, Sue and Ki take you on a junking journey to make over each room. You'll meet the homeowners, discover their hopes and dreams, then watch as Sue and Ki magically transform each item on the homeowners' wish lists into reality. A coatrack becomes an industrial-style water piece; a picket fence is re-upped for daybed duty on a sunporch; a lonesome dog kennel gate finds new life as the door to a bathroom.

Packed with plenty of "before" photos and fun action shots of Sue and Ki in the midst of their junk madness, Junk Beautiful is a decorating guide like no other -- inviting and irreverent. And with clear how-to instructions for nearly 30 projects used in the book, even the beginning DIYer will be satisfied. Junk Beautiful is a complete guide to junking paradise.

"In today's disposable world, it's refreshing to see the ingenuity and creativity illustrated by Junk Beautiful, where Sue and Ki transform ordinary, mundane, or seemingly hopeless items into fabulously functional pieces. This book is a must for all garage sale, flea market, and thrift store junkies!"
-- Tim Luke of HGTV's "Cash in the Attic"

"Assembled by Junkmasters Sue Whitney and Ki Nassauer, Junk Beautiful is overflowing with ideas that are fresh, original, and fun!"
-- Danny Seo, author of Simply Green Giving and Simply Green Parties

Reuse, Repurpose, Refresh	2
A Sunny Forecast	4
Shipshape Supper Club	22
Delectable Dining	46
Laundry Lounge	62
Making an Entrance	78
Living Room Luxury	94
A Suite Bedroom	116
Executive Home Office	142
Spa Among the Cedars	160
How to Make the Rest	184
RESOURCES	202
INDEX	203

Welcome to the pages of Junk Beautiful. If you find yourself reading this page, either you are already a devoted junker or you are about to become one. Sorry, junking is highly contagious and there's no avoiding it! Our advice is just sit back and give in to the urge.

What is junk? you ask. Some call it garbage, trash, or castoffs. To this we say, "Rubbish!" For us, fleamarket finds, tag- sale goodies, and dumpster discoveries all play an important role in uncharacteristically good home design.

In Junk Beautiful we demonstrate how to take the stuff no one else wants and with it breath new life into the decor of your home. People looking for an alternative to their hum-drum, cookie-cutter rooms will find dozens of fresh ideas for showcasing their own personal style á la junk.

After all, it's about time you discovered that junk is for everyone. We show you nine unique styles -- and rooms -- provide step-by-step projects for the do-it yourselfers, offer up junking tips, and highlight junk transformations through hundreds of beautiful and inspiring photos.

We recognize that like junk, people have personalities of their own; individual characteristics that make them unique. When we are invited into a home to work our magic, we pay lots of attention to the way our clients live. We like to think of it as "meeting the Fokkers." So in Junk Beautiful, you'll also get to know the hopes and dreams of our homeowners.

Junkers are not only stylish people, but they are also concerned about their environment. For years we have been encouraging people to create their own style, one piece of junk at a time. Remember, while doing this we're also saving the earth, one piece of junk at a time.

Until next time, see you on the junk pile!

Sue and Ki

Customer Reviews from Amazon

I really like the creativity that Sue and Ki have when coming up with uses for junk and design for rooms. They are an awesome team. I wish they would come to my house and use their magic on all my junk. This book seemed to have more "industrial" junk than what I usually see available. Old hospital gurneys seem to be a dime a dozen where these gals live. I have never seen one for sale anywhere, and I have shopped a lot. I hope they keep making books.

I really enjoyed their take on junk. The photos and ideas are amazing, and the running commentary is funny. I'm busy thinking about what new junk finds I could transform...

Sometimes I look back on my childhood and wondered how I even survived. The home I lived in was not very "kid friendly". It was like living in the Smithsonian. Crazy silk flowers, couches covered in plastic, doilies under everything -including doilies under doilies, expensive prints of famous paintings in expensive frames. Everything had to be "just so".

It sucked.

When it was time for me to move out, I knew I needed to furnish my new place but I didn't exactly have a lot of money to spend on new things. Besides, I didn't want new things. I didn't want my place to look like it came straight from the pages of Ikea. I wanted my place to be unique, inviting, and completely comfortable.

So, I began scouring the garage sales, the flea markets, the night before trash day in nice neighborhoods - you would not believe what you can find sitting out there on the curb and I took all of this stuff in and began to sand, primer, and paint. I sawed, I hammered, I drilled. I washed, I sewed, I stapled. I was like Martha Stewart on steroids. And the end result was a home that felt like a home.

This book really puts things in perspective. It shows how with a little ingenuinuity and some creative imagination you can create living spaces that are filled to overflowing with charm, love, and individuality.

My sister-in-law gets a new living room set about every two years. It's always expensive and she always has to brag about how much she paid for everything. Actually, she didn't pay for any of it, her husband did...and probably still does...but despite the heavy duty price tag, her home doesn't feel like a home. It feels cold, impersonal, unhappy. Sometimes, on the drive home my wife starts to complain about her home and how she wished she had $65,000 and she'd re-decorate the whole house. But then we come home and she sees the authentic Chinese mohagany altar table we found in a dumpster and converted into a coffee table, the wingback chair that we got for $12 at a garage sale and pinned a very nice tapestry from India on it, the rug that was originally selling for $450 but we ended up getting for $195 because the person that ordered it never showed up and one of my favorites, the six framed, multi-colored window that came from an old house and we just took the glass out and installed a mirror in the back, and she breaks out in a smile and says, "This may all be junk, but it's my junk..."

This book really shows you that we really don't need that much to be happy and the great thing about "junk" furniture that if something does happen to it, it's not a huge loss unlike the Victorian chair in my dad's study. Apparently, "some thoughtless moron" sat in that chair while eating chocolate and wiped their hands all over it, creating permanent stains.

Boo-hoo, dad.

(I'm not even sorry.)

So get this book and start being a little more creative, a little more inspired, and a lot more happy. And just like the things I've found over the years, this book is indeed a treasure.

Peace and Blessings,
john, 'the Light Coach'

I love this book I have a hard time putting it down it is so creative and inspirational on to reuse and repurpose old items to new ones. I would encourage everyone to purchase this book if you like to be creative you wil love this book. I look forward to a 3rd book.

This is a fabulous book. It gave me all kinds of inspiration for decorating my home and for using creative displays for my retail store.

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